Zach was woken up by the sun's light, he wasn't the first to wake up in the palace but he woke up quite early. It was the day he would have to participate in a war simulation, he went to the palace kitchen to take something to eat.
He was walking to the palace entrance while eating a green apple he took. The palace's entrance was the genius squad's meeting point, apart from Kimstros each of them would go do this simulation.
He was the first to arrive, there was someone who was waiting for him. "I have something for you." The man said while getting out a big thing out of his spacial ring, when he saw it Zach was quite happy, it was his scythe. "Thank Viggo for me." Zach replied, the man nodded then went away.
He unwrapped it and looked at it, it was of a dark purple color with a green line going from the handle to the tip of the blade, Zach could see how sharp it was, he didn't doubt that it could bisect one of his finger without a problem even though he had a very powerful body. He put it in his shadow with a big smile.
15 minutes later Bea appeared from afar, she was quite surprised that someone was already here waiting. Bea was assessing Zach, she saw that he was a competent and useful fighter during the snake's mission but she didn't knew accurately his capabilities.
She looked at his legs, his arms and his torso, she could see that he had a very powerful body, from her sixth sense she could feel a certain pressure from him. It made her think about him, she never heard of him but he could be this powerful with such a low cultivation and while being so young.
This made her curious and suspicious about his purpose in Delp, after all she wasn't aware of everything Zach did neither that he was the king himself that put him there.
Then Zoe appeared while looking like the mysterious girl she was in the genius squad, she came from a direction opposed to the one of the palace. 'I wonder what path she took to appear from the opposed direction of the palace's one.' Zach was thinking about it, he wanted to ask her but if he did that he would spoil her disguise.
"Hello." Zoe said plainly, Zach and Bea nodded, Bea decided that she would keep an eye on Zach just in case, if at any moment she felt like he would do any harm to the kingdom she would fight and kill him.
Little by little everyone in the genius squad arrived, once they were all there Bea took the lead and they started to walk towars the plain where they would fight.
Once they reached it, Bea encountered the leader of the opposing squad to discuss things about this simulation, especially about the using of weapons and the manipulation of the elements. It was only a simulation, none of them wanted to have casualties for so little.
It was decided that when using weapon they had to stop before the fatal hit reached the target, the target would exit the simulation, aside from that it was allowed inflict injuries to others. As for the one who handled the elements, they had to make so their attacks would at most knock out the warrior.
Injuries would be unavoidable, everyone here knew that, in addition they weren't in a kind world, an accident could happen and it could lead to, at best crippleness and at worst death. Once Bea and the other leader finished to talk both of them lead their team to an extremity of the plain.
"Everyone, remember what I said, make it so we won't have any shame no matter the result !" Bea announced loudly, on that they started to go forwards, to go to the battle.
Almost everyone was nervous even though it was only a simulation, Zach was calm, he already lived much worse, like when the bear almost killed him or the fight against the fox. As for Zoe she was calmer than most but still she was a bit nervous.
They reached a place where there was a few trees, the vanguard contiued to walk towards the other squad while the rearguards stayed there and all of them started to gather their energy and prepare their long range attacks.
They could see on the other side, on the left, the other squad, they were gathered in one whole group. "GO ! Let's fight !" Bea exclaimed. Zach, who decided to start the fight weaponless, and all the other started to rush towards them.
Suddenly they could see above their heads attacks, there was light spears, birds of flame or water jet. Their rearguards was doing their job properly and covered them, the genius squad had the advantage of being the first to attack, it made so that the other squad had to defend the incoming attacks.
While they were defending against those attacks, Bea, Taron, Xaratus and the other were going faster. As for Zach, he hesitated for an instant to use his Void steps but in the end he decided against it, he just accelerated like the others.
The other squad when they saw the attacks and the incoming warriors weren't flustered at all, about half of the group went forward to stop them. It became a huge brawl, Bea was against the other leader while everyone else was fighting whoever ended in front of them.
Zach used his vibrating punches, he would be doing great damages to his oppenent though his oppent would got knock out before it became too dangerous for him. His opponent was fighting with a staff, unlucky for him Zach's body was so sturdy that he wouldn't do much damages.
Zach was surprised by the speed at which he wielded his staff. 'Crap ! He should have a wind affinity'. Zach got hit on his right arm and was taken aback by the pain he was enduring. For Zach it wasn't much but never would he have thought that this staff would do this much damage.
Zach grabbed the staff with his left arm and pulled the man towards him, the man wasn't surprised about this choice and simply let go of his staff to land a kick on Zach's left arm. However Zach reacted and used his right arm despite the pain and landed a vibrating punch on his leg.
The man felt odd, it was a new feeling for him and at first he was about to go again on Zach but the next moment he tried to use his leg he felt on the ground holding his leg. His leg was totally broken, when he looked up he saw Zach's fist just before his head, he knew that he was out of combat.
Zach's punches were very efficient but it would need him to get close to his opponent and it would also take a lot of his energy. The next moment he found another opponent, he just knocked out a genius.
Meanwhile the rearguards was still launching attacks again and again on the squad but until now nothing hit someone. However there was something that everyone forgot, they were against an experienced team and they forgot about the possible plans they could have.
While they were continuing to launch attacks, a small squad of 5 men appeared, each of them were close quarter fighter. When they saw them a lot of the genius panicked, Galitos was making their path hard to go on and Zoe was lauching a lot of light spears at each instant.
However it wasn't enough to make them stay away and so Galitos picked 2 men and used his staff along his earth affinity to stall them, considering their cultivation and number he wouldn't be able to last long.
Zoe summoned roots to grab them wile launching light spear and every other genius attacked them. It made it so the 5 of them were stalled and couldn't do anything to them.
Nevertheless while they were stalling those 5 they couldn't bring their support to the vanguard, it made it so that the genius squad's vanguard ended in a tough position.
Taron, Zach and Xaratus were managing to win their fight as for the other they could more or less stall but now they ended in a state where in addition to the fighter in front of them they received another pressure. Like this they wouldn't last long either, this fight wasn't looking good on any side for them.
Bea who was still fighting against the other leader saw the situation and her face turned dark, she knew that they would lose, she couldn't end her fight quickly enough to save them so it made her grit her teeth.
Little by little they were losing a lot of their fighter and in the end there was only a part of the rearguard still fighting and Bea, Xaratus, Taron and Zach who were still up against the other.
Xaratus, Taron and Zach had to manage about 3 men each, it was so much pressure that it was incredible that they could last a few moments against them.
However even if they could last against them they were tiring at an alarming speed and if by any miracle they didn't tire they were in a passive position and wouldn't be able to knock out any man.
"All of you stop ! It's enough !" A deep and powerful voice resounded in the whole plain and everyone stopped to fight at the moment they heard it.